Picture your journey toward your new year goal like climbing a mountain. It’s important to focus on each movement individually, making sure you have a good grasp of the mountainside before making your next move. If you move too quickly and without a good grip of where you are and what your next move should be, you could fall and lose your progress both physically and mentally.
In the same way, you not only want to take small steps 
toward your big goal, but focus on the success of each step before moving to the next one. Taking smaller steps toward your big goals can support your Physical, Spiritual, Occupational, Intellectual, and Emotional wellbeing.
Here are some examples of big goals that can benefit from short-term steps:
To lose weight:
- Eat one healthy snack a day for a month
- Every week, try out a new piece of training equipment at the gym
- For one week, prep each of your daily meals the night before
Grow professionally by:
- Arriving early to work every day for a week
- Listening to a podcast episode about leadership once a day
- Requesting training or taking a course to improve a skill you can apply to your daily work
Resources:
How To Set Goals When Long-Term Thinking is Difficult
7 Ways to Set Short and Long-Term Goals for Your Career
5 Reasons Why New Year Resolutions Fail… And 5 Steps to Successfully Fulfilling Them